💬 Quotes

"Whatever you consciously choose to believe and feel as true will be accepted by your subconscious and brought to pass."

"Never finish a negative statement; reverse it immediately, and wonders will happen in your life."

"Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, though no one would think so to hear the people talk, there was a shepherd on the Downs."

"If you mix up Reason with emotion, be very sure you will only make a mess."

"Children and fools are always right, up to the date of their experience, but dead wrong afterwards."

"We are not quite the only people in England, though we are pretty busy."

"A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions."

"All England is waking, and where the church towers are you could see, if you were high enough, that England is full of people who have been asleep."

"Love is a passion so powerful that it defies reason, morality, and the fear of ruin, reducing all other duties to mere shadows."

"I was guilty of a blind weakness, I confess; but my heart was pure, and I loved her to a degree that bordered on idolatry."

"Charms such as hers were capable of moving the most insensate hearts. It was impossible to see her without loving her."

"Fickle as she was, she loved me tenderly, and my presence alone could inspire her with sentiments of virtue and sincerity."

"Fate seemed to take pleasure in persecuting us, leading us from one disaster to another despite our brief moments of happiness."

"I learned at my own expense that a man given over to his passions is entirely incapable of governing his own destiny."

"The transport of those ecstatic moments, when all the powers of life are called forth and concentrated into that supreme point of bliss, are too high-wrought for description."

"Nature is always a good housewife, and provides for her ends by methods far more simple and effectual than all the contrivances of art."

"Love, true love, was at the bottom of it all; and where that is, all the little faults and whimsicalities of passion disappear like mists before the sun."

"My life, till now, had been a scene of absolute ignorance and innocence, or rather stupidity."

"Pleasure is the business of life, and it is sheer folly to sacrifice the present enjoyment to the empty name of virtue."

"Thus was I planted, in a happy soil, where I soon shot up into a luxuriant growth, and promised the most plentiful harvest."